Love and Death
in the Renaissance Castle

UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies
in cooperation with
Centro Internazionale di Studi Francesca da Rimini

Funding for this program has been provided by members of the UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies Council and the Centro Internazionale di Studi Francesca da Rimini.

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Friday, November 20, 2015 | UCLA Royce Hall Room 314

1:30 Registration
2:00 Welcoming Remarks
Massimo Ciavolella (Italian, UCLA), CMRS Director
Diane Ghirardo (School of Architecture, University of Southern California)

SESSION I
Heather Sottong (Italian, UCLA), Chair

2:15 “Odd Couples and Incongruous Fortifications: Dynastic Marriages and their Representations in Early Modern Italian Castles”
Guendalina Ajello Mahler (CMRS Associate, UCLA)

3:15 “‘No one would dare.’ Plots, Deceits and Craving for Power: Henry of Guise and Henry III at the Château of Blois”
Sara Taglialagamba (Independent Scholar, Pisa)

4:15 “Mysterious and Literary Murders (and Suicides) in Medieval Castles”
Antonella Tropeano (University for Foreigners, Perugia)

Saturday, November 21, 2015 | UCLA Royce Hall Room 314

8:30 Coffee, fruit, pastries

SESSION II
Brittany Asaro (Italian, California Lutheran University), Chair

9:00 “Secrets in Castles”
Giuseppe Mazzotta+ (Italian, Yale University)

10:00 “Arden of Faversham and the Locality of Love and Murder”
Allison Collins (Comparative Literature, UCLA)

11:00 “Lovers and Demons”
Diane Ghirardo (School of Architecture, University of Southern California)

12:00 “Gesualdo da Venosa: A Melancholic Murderer”
Remo Bodei (University of Pisa)

12:45 Lunch Break

SESSION III
Christiana Purdy Moudarres (Italian, Yale), Chair

2:00 “The Crime Scene: Who, When, Where, Why? (and How). Or: The Francesca Case”
Roberto Fedi (Italian and Comparative Cultures, University for Foreigners, Perugia)

3:00 “Ten Castles for One Kiss. The Story of Francesca da Rimini: Between Poetry and Fantasy”
Ferrucio Farina (Centro Internazionale di Studi Francesca da Rimini)

4:00 “Leigh Hunt’s The Story of Rimini (1816): Paolo and Francesca in Regency England”
Deirdre O’Grady (Languages and Literatures, University College Dublin)

4:45 Concluding Remarks